Harlem Renaissance

PBS Crash Course Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance

PBS Crash Course: Reconstruction

13th Amendment, 1864-5

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


W.E.B. Du Bois: The Four Questions

How does integrity face oppression?

What does honesty do in the face of deception?

What does decency do in the face of insult?

How does virtue meet brute force?

Renaissance

"Harlem"

What happens to a dream deferred?


Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?


Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.


Or does it explode?


Hughes Packet

English 2 Hughes.pdf

Hughes Intro from Norton Anthology

Norton Hughes Intro.pdf
Hughes Negro Art.pdf

Hughes: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

Cullen Packet

English 2 Cullen.pdf

Cullen Bio

Cullen Bio.pdf

McKay Packet

English 2 McKay.pdf

McKay Bio

McKay Bio.pdf